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And the so-called adivasi leaders like Karma expect fat commissions and bribes from their masters for clearing the areas of Maoists.
Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006
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And the so-called adivasi leaders like Karma expect fat commissions and bribes from their masters for clearing the areas of Maoists.
Maoist reply to Independent Citizen Initiative on Dantewada Abhay N 2006
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This is taking place amid escalating confrontation between Maoist rebels and the Government, and many believe the real objective of the Government's "Operation Green Hunt" is to clear the indigenous forest dweller population, known as adivasi, from mineral-rich lands so that the Government can hand the lands over to the corporations.
YubaNet.com 2010
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"Operation Green Hunt" is to clear the indigenous forest dweller population, known as adivasi, from mineral-rich lands so that the Government can hand the lands over to the corporations.
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This is taking place amid escalating confrontation between Maoist rebels and the Government, and many believe the real objective of the Government's "Operation Green Hunt" is to clear the indigenous forest dweller population, known as adivasi, from mineral-rich lands so that the Government can hand the lands over to the corporations.
YubaNet.com 2010
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As India's King Coal -- India Coal -- goes public this week on the stock market in a historic sale, devastating coal mine operations in the state of Jharkhand continue to displace adivasi tribal populations, and employ women and children in unsafe conditions.
Jeff Biggers: As the Extraction World Turns: Peabody Doubles Profits, 37 Dead Chinese Miners, 70,000 Indian Children in Mines Jeff Biggers 2010
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As India's King Coal -- India Coal -- goes public this week on the stock market in a historic sale, devastating coal mine operations in the state of Jharkhand continue to displace adivasi tribal populations, and employ women and children in unsafe conditions.
Jeff Biggers: As the Extraction World Turns: Peabody Doubles Profits, 37 Dead Chinese Miners, 70,000 Indian Children in Mines Jeff Biggers 2010
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As the heartland of the coalfields in eastern India, Jharkhand has often been compared to Appalachia for its rich coal deposits--and the devastating repercussions and removal of local tribal or adivasi communities and their native lands by a form of open-cast mining similar to mountaintop removal mining.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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JB: What government agencies have intervened on behalf of the adivasi communities?
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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JB: For an American readership, who are the adivasi communities, and what rights do their have in protecting their land?
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
artoparts commented on the word adivasi
The term adivasi refers to the indigenous people of India, who belong to remote tribal groups and speak many different dialects.
February 26, 2009